herd introduction

2013 May 10

After her fist night in it was now time to introduce Lilja to the herd of five horses.

She  seamed to have a relativly good night in, the stable was a mess but its to be expected with a left brain extrovert.  the boredom breaker carrot ball was certainly a highlight as all but a few pieced had been removed, the last few i repositioned and an impatient Lilja was soon allowed to finish the pieces.

We had decided to give the horses a small breakfast, then after most had been eaten i followed Drottning out with Lilja at my side.  We drove the horsrs out of the feeding ares and after showing Lilja the water let her go.  She had a brief introduction with Vinur  before deciding to explore the field, with Vinur, Freya and Idja following closely behind and for a short time it continued like this with odd sniffs and squels.

Things seamed pretty settled, Vinur was being rather nice to her (i was expecting him to be sour to her like he has been in the past with other low ranking horses) so i was supprised to see him being the nicest of the herd, and where needed he would step in to break up little fights, or encourage Lilja to move out the way.

It was around this time that we gave the horses the rest of their food

The rest of the day was fairly quiet, there were a few discussions here and there but no major quarrols.  I went many times to meet with Lilja often only for ten or twenty minutes.  As it was quite warm day I decided to take a bucket of water out a few times, which was always greaty appriciated, confirming my thought that the water was being guarded.

The evening food was spread out over the field and after a discussion with lillian we decided to leave lilja out for the night.